OIL: Exit Rieber

Into their handsome board room on the 26th floor
of Manhattan's spike-topped Chrysler Building last week strode 15 grave
directors of $661,067,033 Texas Corp. Eleven of them were there to
debate the fate of their $100,000-a-year chairman
 hardheaded Torkild Rieber, Norwegian-born onetime tanker master.
Three, officers of the company, had come to listen. In the witness
chair was Oilman Rieber. Out side, in the anteroom, were war and Adolf
Hitler.